1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Ethiopic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Selam
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
amesege'nallo'
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Dehina newot?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
Dehna dur
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
melkam meshe't
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
i'bakwon
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
aznallehu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
tschao
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
afekirishalehu
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
yiqirta
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gondar
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
18.70 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
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བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Ge'ez
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology